Fish Out of Water The Scott and Shasta Rivers which provide prime spawning and rearing habitat for Salmon and Steelhead for the Klamath River system are bone dry as irrigators drain their aquifers this summer. This is particularly disturbing after the Nature Conservancy’s recent purchase of the Big Springs property on the Shasta that for [...]
Nestle Bottling Plant, McCloud River Fly fishers and flyfishing on the McCloud River will be spared as Nestle’s six year attack on the springs that supply the flow into the fabled McCloud River has come to an end. In a letter yesterday Nestle withdrew their project proposal on the old mill property in McCloud. The [...]
Sign on to Support Cal Trout, TU, FFF & CSPA This year critical Lower McCloud River dam relicensing meetings with stakeholders are scheduled and I attended a meeting in Mount Shasta as a representative for the Northern California branch of the Federation of Fly Fishers (FFF). Much of discussion at this meeting was related to [...]
Big Springs Purchased The Nature Conservancy closed escrow March 6th on a critical piece of the Shasta River known as Big Springs. The Shasta is historically second only to the Trinity tributary as a nursery for anadramous fish in the Klamath River System. This purchase is intended to reestablish high quality flows in an effort [...]
May 8th 2009! Shasta Trout along with local guides John Rickard, Mike Hibbard and Jim Andras are donating a weekend of steelhead fishing for six to eight anglers on the Klamath River to the Cal Trout auction gala scheduled May 8th at the Four Seasons in San Francisco. The weekend will be hosted by the [...]